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Alan Seeger's Poetry, by first line

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  • The Aisne
    We first saw fire on the tragic slopes
    Where the flood-tide of France's early gain,
    52 lines
  • Sonnet 01
    Sidney, in whom the heyday of romance
    Came to its precious and most perfect flower,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 02
    Not that I always struck the proper mean
    Of what mankind must give for what they gain,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 03
    Why should you be astonished that my heart,
    Plunged for so long in darkness and in dearth,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Sonnet 04
    If I was drawn here from a distant place,
    'Twas not to pray nor hear our friend's address,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Sonnet 05
    Seeing you have not come with me, nor spent
    This day's suggestive beauty as we ought,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 06
    Oh, you are more desirable to me
    Than all I staked in an impulsive hour,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 07
    There have been times when I could storm and plead,
    But you shall never hear me supplicate.
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 08
    Oh, love of woman, you are known to be
    A passion sent to plague the hearts of men;
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 10
    I have sought Happiness, but it has been
    A lovely rainbow, baffling all pursuit,
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • Sonnet 11
    Apart sweet women (for whom Heaven be blessed),
    Comrades, you cannot think how thin and blue
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 12
    Clouds rosy-tinted in the setting sun,
    Depths of the azure eastern sky between,
    14 lines
  • Bellinglise
    Deep in the sloping forest that surrounds
    The head of a green valley that I know,
    29 lines
  • Liebestod
    I who, conceived beneath another star,
    Had been a prince and played with life, instead
    34 lines
  • Resurgam
    Exiled afar from youth and happy love,
    If Death should ravish my fond spirit hence
    6 lines, 3 comments
  • Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99
    Ruggiero, to amaze the British host,
    And wake more wonder in their wondering ranks,
    90 lines
  • Do You Remember Once . . .
    Do you remember once, in Paris of glad faces,
    The night we wandered off under the third moon's rays
    68 lines
  • The Bayadere
    Flaked, drifting clouds hide not the full moon's rays
    More than her beautiful bright limbs were hid
    24 lines
  • Eudaemon
    O happiness, I know not what far seas,
    Blue hills and deep, thy sunny realms surround,
    24 lines
  • Broceliande
    Broceliande! in the perilous beauty of silence and menacing shade,
    Thou art set on the shores of the sea down the haze
    16 lines
  • Lyonesse
    In Lyonesse was beauty enough, men say:
    Long Summer loaded the orchards to excess,
    11 lines
  • Tithonus
    So when the verdure of his life was shed,
    With all the grace of ripened manlihead,
    50 lines
  • Translations: Dante - Inferno, Canto XXVI
    Florence, rejoice! For thou o'er land and sea
    So spread'st thy pinions that the fame of thee
    144 lines
  • Vivien
    Her eyes under their lashes were blue pools
    Fringed round with lilies; her bright hair unfurled
    14 lines
  • I Loved...
    I loved illustrious cities and the crowds
    That eddy through their incandescent nights.
    14 lines
  • Virginibus Puerisque . . .
    I care not that one listen if he lives
    For aught but life's romance, nor puts above
    14 lines
  • Coucy
    The rooks aclamor when one enters here
    Startle the empty towers far overhead;
    14 lines
  • Tezcotzinco
    Though thou art now a ruin bare and cold,
    Thou wert sometime the garden of a king.
    14 lines
  • The Old Lowe House, Staten Island
    Another prospect pleased the builder's eye,
    And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes)
    14 lines
  • Oneata
    A hilltop sought by every soothing breeze
    That loves the melody of murmuring boughs,
    14 lines
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